Why Aren’t You Moving?

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What's up, family, and welcome to another episode of the I Can't Help Them podcast. Yo, it's your host, it's your boy Rodney Footman. I'm back in the building, y'all. Took a week off, needed some rest. You know what I'm saying? Just get my life back together. You know what I'm saying? Because I did a you know I did episodes saying, Are you distracted? And I found out I was distracted. Ain't that something? And then I, you know, I had to kill the distractions. Because I was distracted. You know, once you do something, the devil come at you with it. And he came at me with it. I was like, bruh, let me get these distractions out. Because I did talk about some of the distractions that I was going through, but I had more distractions than I thought. So yeah, we back. We back, baby. We back on post and we back, and ain't nothing gonna stop us. Y'all hear me? Ain't nothing gonna stop us. But you know, we gotta go with another episode. So this episode is called Why Aren't You Moving? Why ain't you moving, yo? Why ain't you moving? Listen, why aren't you moving? This ain't for your neighbor, this is not for your church, but this for you. Why aren't you moving? Why? Why? Because many of us have ideas, we have dreams, we have assignments, but we're still standing in the same place. Uh we still thinking, we still planning, we still waiting, but not moving. So guess what? We're gonna talk about it today. Because listen, we can't stay in the same place in 2026. Listen, we already in the month of uh March. We really in the month of April, because this is the last week in March. So March is gone this quick. April is here already. This time ain't waiting for nobody. You know what I'm saying? Time is not waiting for nobody. Yo, let's discuss. Let's let's because sometimes we use fear disguised as wisdom. We use fear disguised as wisdom. Sometimes we're saying we're being wise, but we're actually afraid. And what are we afraid of? We're afraid to fail, we're afraid to look foolish, we're afraid to start small, we're afraid people won't support us, so we disguise fear as preparation. I'm still doing we say things like I'm still praying about it, I'm still researching, I'm still waiting on the right time. Listen, I'm gonna go ahead and let you know. I done said all these things, y'all. Number one, I'm afraid to fail. I I'm still afraid to fail. I'm not gonna lie to you. Even when you come to this podcast, sometimes you know what I'm saying, I'm like, bruh, what's the point? Why I'm doing this? But I understand that I'm reaching somebody, and somebody is watching. Y'all might not be saying nothing, but you're watching. And I gotta stay consistent because if I stay consistent, the more I stay consistent, the more other people are gonna watch, and the more people are gonna say that I'm serious. But I do sometimes, it plays in my mind now. It plays in my mind, it plays in my mind sometimes that yo, this thing is gonna fail. Like I'm doing this, or I feel like it's already failing, uh, you know, but I'm just still doing it. So don't don't allow you being afraid to fail to stop you because you don't know. You don't know what's gonna happen. Even with this podcast, every time I put out an episode, I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know how many people are gonna download. I don't know how many people are gonna watch. I don't know how many people are gonna listen. But I know when you go to my page, you're gonna see a whole bunch of reels on there with my podcast on there. And one day, I'm believing one day somebody's gonna repost something and it's gonna explode. And but until that day, consistency is the key. You hear me? Listen, afraid to look foolish, listen. Sometimes I be thinking I look foolish, doing the things that God called me to. Listen, because God had you out here now. What? God will have you out here to other people, you be looking crazy, you be looking foolish. I mean, let's think about Noah. Let's think about Noah for a minute. The Lord told him to build ark, it wasn't even raining. Hadn't rained in many years. Let's but the Lord told him to build ark because it was gonna be a great storm and flood and all that type of stuff. And guess what happened? While they was looking at Noah thinking he was crazy, they were looking at Noah thinking he was crazy now. While he was building his ark and they want to get on the ark.

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Look what happened.

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Jesus look, so sometimes we gotta look foolish to the to the outsiders, to the outside eye, but we gotta look wonderful to the inside eye and to God, because if God told us to do something, it's a reason he told us to do it. We might not even know the reason at the appointed time, but if he told you to do it, guess what? Just do it. Don't care about looking foolish. Who cares? Because at the end of the day, ain't none of them paying your bill, and can't none of them send you to hell or heaven. All they can do is say, that almost said a word. That man looked foolish. That woman looked foolish. Why is she doing that? Now you know that's one of the dumbest things I ever seen in my life. But guess what? It might have been the same thing that God told you to do, and sooner or later they're gonna find out why you did it. So, what you gonna do? You know what I'm saying? Afraid to start small. You gotta start somewhere, or you ain't gonna move nowhere. If you don't start somewhere, you can't move nowhere. So what if you start small? Start small. Right? I'm starting small with this podcast. Do I believe I want the I want a room for myself? Listen, I want a podcast room, I want the equipment, the professional equipment, I want the lights, I want all that. And it's gonna come. But right now, guess what I got? My phone, my tablet with my notes, and I be going to the you see, I got an apartment complex in the back. I'm using the office rooms in the apartment complex. Because this is all I got right now. I'm starting small. But listen, my videos be banging it. They be banging. And listen, I'm starting. And guess what? I've already found a podcast room to where I'm gonna be recording my podcast now. And I'm gonna start having guests because I ain't had no guests yet. I keep saying I'm gonna have guests, but I ain't had a guest yet. And I really want to have guests, but you know, I like doing this one-on-one thing, but I'm gonna start having guests. Um maybe, you know, maybe. But again, I'm starting small, and you have to start small in order to get big. You know what I'm saying? The Bible says if you be faithful over a few things, listen, this is my faithful few that I'm being, that I'm being a good steward over, that I'm excuse me, that I'm being a bit, I'm being a good steward over. I'm doing this. So when the big stuff comes, I'm be prepared for the big stuff because I already done researched it. And listen, I'm just I can't help them podcast going up. I don't care what nobody got to say now. You can say what you want to say. This podcast is gonna go up. God done put his hand on this podcast, it's gonna go up. And I just, you know, you gotta start somewhere. Gee, and that's for that's even for me, for all the other things that God wants me to do. Like, I gotta start, uh, even though I started podcasts. Listen, I like doing video content for churches and stuff like that. Like, I thought I needed all the equipment, all the cameras, and all that type. No, I need this little phone right here. Record the video, make it look good. Listen, this is what I need. And I'm out here tripping, not doing nothing because uh because I think it's small. We don't think small no more. Listen, listen, we're gonna get out here and do it because I already got some churches underneath my belt that I'm gonna start doing it for. Listen, because God will bless you when you start moving, when you start putting it out there, He will bless you. And I thank God, you know what I'm saying? Because He's doing stuff. Afraid people won't support. Listen here. We ain't care about if people support or not. Listen, I put out a book. You think anybody that's my friend bought my book? Bought my devotional book. It was it's called Man Pour Out 15 Day Uh Challenge. How many friends bought my book? I can dig zero. Ain't not one, but they like the post. They comment, but ain't nobody bought it. Not none of my not none of my close friends, not none of my family.

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Ain't none of them bought the book.

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But guess who have about book my book? People don't even know. People message me, be like, yo, book help me. Men be messaging me, be like, yo, this this pour-out challenge, bless my soul. This pour-out challenge, 15 days when you coming out with the next one. And I'm working on it. I'm working on it. It's coming, it's coming. But again, we not worried about if people support us or not. Because at the end of the day, I put something in the earth that God told me to put in the earth, and it's gonna last longer than it's gonna, then I'ma last. That is that's what you call legacy right now. We leave a legacy around here, G. We leave a legacy around here. So, you know, we're not worried about um people supporting. Because they gonna either they're gonna support or they ain't gonna support. But you still gotta keep it moving. You still gotta keep it moving. You can't let that stop that. You can't let that stop you from moving. We gotta move. We gotta move, baby. We gotta move. Then a lot of times we say, Oh, I'm waiting on the right time. Gee, it ain't gonna ever be the right time if you don't do it. I'm just gonna be honest. Listen, that's one of my, that was one of my biggest problems. I had so many ideas and still got a lot of ideas, and I'd be like, it at the right time. But when is the right time? Or are you just afraid to start? Are you afraid to move? Because of all the other things that I just said. You're afraid to fail, you're afraid to look foolish, you're afraid to start small, and you're afraid people won't support you. It don't matter. Just move. Listen. Because the more you move, the more you're gonna do, and the more people gonna see. Because most of the time, really, people just want to see your consistency if you're really about what you say you about. And that's one thing I had to learn because I would say, I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do that, and I'm gonna do this, and I would start. But I wouldn't remain consistent with it. I wouldn't remain, I wouldn't keep doing it. I'll be on to the next one because some day supports me in this one. We not doing that in 2026. We ain't doing that no more. Nah. What we're doing is we stay consistent with one thing, and then if another thing adds on to it, we're gonna be consistent with that too. So we not doing that. Listen, fear freezes, but faith moves. So if you're fearful, you froze. Obviously, because you ain't moving, you ain't doing that. You're fearful. But if you got faith, you move, you move, you move, move, move, get out the way, get out the way, get out the way, move. I'm sorry, I got a little bit loot greasy in me.

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But move, man, move.

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Listen, overthinking kills momentum. Overthinking it kills momentum. Some of us are stuck because we're analyzing everything. Ooh, you want the full plan, you want every detail, you want everything, every step mapped out. Listen, if that ain't me, that's how I know. When God was giving me these notes, I'm like, dog, you hitting me too. Because that's the type of person I am. I want to know every step. I want to know every detail. Even when I'm planning stuff, listen, I'm giving you every step, every detail. This how you plan out, this is how you do it, what time it's gonna be, how it's gonna be, how you need to show up, all that type of stuff. I the only thing I'm bad at that is like vacation. Planning vacation, like I just go, I don't I don't do the itinerary stuff. I was just talking to somebody last night and I told them, listen, I plan a vacation. Like, I won't go to DC. I know where I want to go, but as far as planning the itinerary and time and stuff like that, like nah, I ain't good at nothing that when it comes to vacation. But if you got a project, if you got a project, you bring that project to me, man. I will map out your whole project, or you map out your whole conference, or map out your whole service, map out your whole business. All that I the Lord just work with me like that. Like, that's why I'm finna change my coach. And it was called under construction, but I'm gonna change it to something else because it's more than being under construction. I am a solutionist, I am uh a strategist, that's what I do. I love to do that. My mind and my brain open up and I find the most joy in doing that. Because listen, I can do it. But sometimes that trait keeps me from moving because I'm overthinking too much. I'm trying to get a whole plan together, but when I can get the first step and move. But I need the whole plan, I need everything about that. I need God. Show me this, show me this, show me this, show me this. Then he just said move. Yo, I'm for my for my people that's overthinkers, this is for us right now. We just gotta move. Because I'm telling you, I know this this one hit me in the in the gut. Gee, it hit me in the gut because we want to know the plan. We want to know the plan. And sometimes it's not meant for us to know the plan right then and there. It's for us to take the step and to keep moving. Even when it comes to this podcast, like, I gotta take a step. I enjoy doing this now, but in the beginning, I was like, man, listen here, listen here. And I had uh a brother of mine, uh um Minister Kelvin Tyler. Listen, great man of God, great man of God. Uh, he told me, he said, you know, the more you do it, the more you become passionate about it. And at the time I didn't understand it because I was like, man, bro, I'm not gonna do it. But the more I do this, like seriously, this podcast and anything else that I feel like I want to do, the more I do it, the more I become passionate about it, the more I want to make it better, the more I want to do it, the more I want to put out this content and to help others and other believers, and you know, help me too. Just be honest, because in order for me to talk about it, I gotta be real with myself for some of these things when I be writing, because sometimes I don't be knowing what I be writing when it comes to these notes. And then when I get out here and I do the podcast, I'll be like, dang, God, you was hitting me in the face. You know what I'm saying? But God gives direction one step at a time. Ain't that, ain't that some one one step at a time, yo. Psalms 119, 105 says, Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Hmm, notice it, notice this now.

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It doesn't say a spotlight down the whole road. So he he he didn't say he's gonna give you the whole road.

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He he just said lamp to the feet and a light to the path. Just enough light for the next step. Just he gives you just enough light for the next step. I'm gonna say that one more time for the people in the back. Just enough light for the next step. Listen, movement creates clarity. Standing still creates doubt.

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Movement creates clarity. Standing still creates doubt.

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I'm just letting you know.

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That's that's what he do. That's what he do. You hear me? That's what he do. I I just had to take a pause on that one because move again, I'm gonna say it again, because I I love it. Movement creates clarity. Standing still creates doubt. So the more you stand still, the more you're gonna doubt yourself. But the more you move, the more clarity you get. Whether it works or not, you still get clarity. Listen, comfort is one of the biggest enemies of purpose. Being comfortable, comfortable, comfortable. Listen, because comfort whispers, this is this is what comfort whispers. Listen, you are fine where you are, you don't need to take the risk, you don't need to start that thing, but purpose often lives outside of comfort. God told Abraham to leave everything familiar. Listen, listen, I'm comfortable. I can talk about comfort because listen, I was comfortable in South Carolina.

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Comfortable.

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Listen, didn't have no plans on moving to Charlotte, none whatsoever. Was not even in my thought process to move into Charlotte because I was comfortable in the upstate area of of uh South Carolina. I can't even say South Carolina no more. South Carolina, Spain, Greenville, Spain, Greenville, Anderson, doing my stomping grounds. It was nowhere. I knew everything. I know everything about those cities. I know everything about those cities. Like I know, I know a lot of people in those cities. I know the spots to go to, the eating places, the places where I could live. I just know the ins and outs of those cities because that's where I've been at all my life. So when the Lord told me to move to Charlotte, man, please. I looked at the Lord like, man, I ain't moving no Charlotte. What? Charlotte? Bro, I ain't going nowhere. I'm staying right here. I'm staying right here in one of these towns. I really, my plan was to go to Greenville. I wouldn't, I was really gonna go move to Greenville, you know, and just chill in Greenville. Uh-uh. The Lord said you gotta go to Charlotte. And then you know what I tried to do? I tried to try the Lord. Have you ever tried to try the Lord? I tried him. I said, you know what? If you want me to move to Charlotte, make a way. If you want me to move to Charlotte, make a way, G. Make a way for me to move to Charlotte. Listen, eight them words, because guess what happened? As soon as I said that, the next week I got a call from a job I ain't even apply for. I got a call from a job I ain't even apply for. And then what made it so bad? It was the most money that I was ever offered just starting out of any job I've ever worked at. Then I said, all right, man. I said, God. You got me, and then I this what I did, y'all. This what I did. I said, all right, y'all, you got me this little job. I ain't got no place to stay. I tell you that. Ate them words too. Applied for an apartment. I just knew I wasn't gonna get it because my credit score, listen, I ain't gonna lie, my credit score was in the in the fours.

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I was like, bro, ain't no way they gonna approve me.

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Guess what happened? They approved me. They approved me. And then I'm gonna tell you what I did, yo. I'm gonna tell you what I did because I knew I ain't wanna stay. I I did not want to, so I did move up here with the job. Yo, the job I wrapped up so many points because I was like, I ain't doing this. I'm going back to South Carolina. Wrapped up so many points at the job. And the apartments that I was in, I was like, bruh, I don't I don't want to stay here. Like, I don't want to be here in Charlotte, bro. I want to go back home. So guess what I did? I ain't pay the rent. I ain't pay the rent, yo. I did not pay the rent in the apartment. This is how rebellious I was trying to be. I'm just telling y'all my story of how comfortable I wanted to be. This is how rebellious I wanted to be. Yo. And did not pay the rent, yo. So, of course, up here in Charlotte by the 10. They sending out the bitch notice. You done. You're done, bitch. So I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go back home. I had already had arrangements to go back home. I forgot I applied for another apartment, y'all. I'm applied for another apartment. And guess what they did? It was like, well, Rodney, if you move here, we give you two months free rent, the first two months free, and then uh what will happen is um you will uh get a thousand dollar gift card too. And you can move in by this date. And guess what? The date that they had me to move in was the last date I had to be at the other apartment.

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And guess what? This is where I'm at now.

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Yeah, I'll see it. Look, I got a pool. Listen, when the pool, the pool about to be open, I'm about to be out there. But after that, I was like, okay, God, I'm here. I'm gonna do your will. I'm gonna do what you want me to do. I'm gonna be uncomfortable for this season because this is an uncomfortable season for me because I'm in the un, I'm in the unknown territory, don't know nobody, don't really, you know what I'm saying? That's how I was I was very comfortable there, but I'm very uncomfortable here. I'm still uncomfortable because I'm still finding my foot in here, even though um I am moving, I'm moving, I'm definitely moving, but it's still some things I'm uncomfortable with. But even in my uncomfortable, uncomfortability, I got peace because I am moving and I am doing the things that the Lord told me to do. And I understand now why I'm here. At first I didn't understand why I had to move here, but I understand better now why I'm here. Movement requires trust. Comfort rarely produces produces destiny. Because movement, movement, you gotta trust God. You got to, you gotta trust God gonna come through for you. You gotta trust that what He says is what it is. Period. That's what you gotta do. And listen, I ain't gonna lie, I ain't gonna flat it. That's hard. It was hard for me. You see everything I just tried to do, and it didn't work. Listen, movement requires trust. Comfort rarely produces destiny because if you stay comfortable, you'll never move towards your destiny, and you're not gonna move. And we want you to move. I want you to move towards your destiny. Because listen, your destiny might help me. You're leaving a brother out here. Just like, just like if I wasn't doing this podcast, again, somebody listening, somebody paying attention. And if I wasn't doing it, man, I'm just trying to tell you, like, bruh. Listen, perfectionism is procrastination. It's procrastination, y'all. That's all it is. Some people aren't moving because they want everything perfect. They want the perfect time and the perfect idea, the perfect resources. But perfectionism often is procrastination in disguise. You don't need perfectionism, you need progress. The first version won't be perfect, the first attempt won't be smooth, but movement creates momentum. This is what I've been saying all podcasts. I'm sorry, I got a little bit got a little bit passionate about that. Because again, that used to be me. I was, listen, I was a perfectionist. I thought I had to have all the ducts in a row, but it was really procrastination because I was really afraid to go out there and start. That's all it was. You don't need you don't need perfection, you need progress. You have to understand it won't be smooth. Yo, first, because you just starting. Of course, it's not gonna be perfect. You just starting, G. You just starting. I mean, now some people, if you got the coins, your first one might be, but even the production might look good, or whatever you do might look good, but that don't mean you know the ins and outs of whatever you finna do. But you know, listen, God cannot direct a park car. God cannot direct a park car. Let me say this clearly, y'all. God often guides people who are already moving. You step, he directs. You act, he adjusts. But if you never move, you never discover the direction. Faith is not standing still forever. Faith is stepping out without even having the full picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'ma say that, I'ma say that one more time. I'ma say that if you step, if you step, he directs. If you act, he adjusts it.

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But if you never move, you'll never know the direction he wants you to go in. You'll never know.

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You'll never know. You know they say the richest place in the earth is the grave because it's full of ideas that people never moved or acted on, and they die with their ideas. So again, don't die with your ideas, don't die with the thing God has gave you. Move. And He shall direct you. Just move. Listen, I'm telling you, if you just move, listen, just move. Listen, I'm I'm gonna beg and plead with you. Just move.

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Just move.

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Just move. Just move.

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Listen, man. Just move. Cause I'm telling you, when you move, God is gonna direct you. God is gonna make the adjustment that He needs to do. And the more you move, the more you get more confident about the thing that you're doing. And the more you get confident, the more you're gonna be better at it, the more you're gonna you're gonna get great at it. And then one day you just gonna look back at these videos, you're gonna look at back when you started, you're gonna be like, dang, boy, that's when I started, but look where I am now. Everybody that started something did not start perfect. Listen, let me ask you again. Why aren't you moving? Is it fear? Is it overthinking? Is it comfort? Is it perfectionism? Whatever it is, recognize it, confront it, and move anyway. Because the difference between people who fulfill purpose and those who don't is often one thing. They start. They start. It might not be the best thing, but they start. And if you don't ever start, you'll never know. So just move. I keep saying that, y'all. I might make that a t-shirt. Just move. So all you gotta do. Just move. Just move. Listen. If this episode has spoken to you in any type of way, listen. Share it with somebody. Please share it with somebody. Share, share, share, share, share with somebody. Share, share, share, share, share it with somebody. Oh, share, share, share, share, share it with somebody. Listen, subscribe to all the podcast channels. Please subscribe to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube. Listen, I truly, genuinely, uh, truly, genuinely love your support. Um, I'm be honest, I just got nominated for Best Podcast of 2026 with uh, I don't even know the name of the awards, but they sent me the thing. And I want to thank you, whoever nominated me. I thank you. And um, because again, it's a blessing because again, I'm doing this uh because the Lord told me to do this. I didn't have any plans. I I've tried this before, podcast before. Um, and it didn't work out. So this is a blessing uh to me to be nominated for this award, whether I win or if I don't win, listen, I was nominated, and I thank God and I bless God for um the nomination. And yeah, so y'all keep doing what you're doing. I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing. Listen, again, this has been the I can't help you. No, not I can't help you. Down, what am I doing? I can't help. I don't even know the name of my own podcast, y'all. I can't help them podcast. Listen, y'all be blessed, have a good one, people.